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timothy
on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @02:01PM
from the making-a-list-checking-it-twice dept.

hypnosec writes "The Linux 3.7 kernel has been delayed by one week as Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.7-rc8 instead. Because of some hiccups following the 'resurrection of a kswapd issue,' Torvalds wasn't comfortable releasing version 3.7 this week and instead went ahead with another release candidate. Torvalds revealed in his release announcement that because of this delay, the merge window for Linux 3.8 will close just around Christmas time."

Amusingly, he's pointing out the truth, and you're the one flaming him. I'm not, although I have the same stimulus as yourself, suggesting that you are perhaps not one of those people who could use meth responsibly. More people are like you, so on the whole meth is harmful to society as a whole, but it's not fair to put the full blame on the drug, just like you can't blame alcohol for the actions of loads of really stupid drunk people.

More "'nam soldiers" died after the war by their own hand than during it. They also perpetrated atrocities/war crimes against civilians including rape and murder of children. I'm not sure they constitute any meaningful sort of control group upon which to rate the effect of drugs.

There is in fact a substantial difference between 'meth' and clinical dextroamphetamine, both in effect and side effect. No one in the entire fucking world prescribes 'meth' for attention deficit disorders. Doing so would be completely ruinous.

You need to guess again [rxlist.com]. There's only one methamphetamine HCl molecule and it doesn't care whether it comes in a little baggy or over the counter at the drug store. If you want to say the street stuff is inferior because it's cut then do an acetone wash and problem solved.

Normally I sneer and ignore tweakers, but you deserve some recognition.

First of all, just to slay the unmentioned elephant in the room, the shit you see on "faces of meth" is the exception to the exception of meth users.

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Let me clue you into something, Chief - I grew up in southern Missouri, surrounded by meth users, meth cooks, meth whores (like your mother), et. al. I've seen several of my loved ones ruin their lives with that filthy Nazi shit, and buried more than one friend who was certain they had their meth addiction "under control." Hell, I even dabbled in the shit myself during a mis-spent youth.

Sure you could but then you either need a prescription or a good street connection. Schedule 2 drugs aren't as easy as you might think to get a doctor to just glibly sign off on. If you go the street route, to get the same effect you get with a gram of meth from something like Adderal or Vivance will cost you several times the cash. Also, meth can be smoked, snorted, IV'd, shoved up your ass, or swallowed so it's a lot more flexible than the pharmaceuticals. It all adds up to meth if you're serious about am

Don't knock meth until you've been about five days into a good bender having just finished coding something that ordinarily would have taken a month and find the police local police spouting some nonsense about your shooting an adversary in the back of the head with a 9mm

Chrome has lots of point releases, actually. You're right that they update the major version number quickly, though. I miss the days when a major version number change meant new features, not bug fixes or speedups.

Major number means a large jump in interface, coding, modules, and the build tree in general. An example would be a word processor getting a new format, a major new feature like spell checking, or a layout change that changes functionality completely.

Minor numbers meant some features were added, but not enough to increment a major number. Continuing the word processor example, adding multi-dictionary support to the spell checker, adding PDF/A as an export format, or signi

Chrome has lots of point releases, actually. You're right that they update the major version number quickly, though. I miss the days when a major version number change meant new features, not bug fixes or speedups.

Personally I don't know on what version of Chrome I have at all and don't miss it a bit, no website is at least complaining that I must run IE or upgrade to a newer version. I'm sure there's support for new features but it looks like most websites are now content with just waiting for them to become available rather than actively pushing them. I'm very glad "best viewed with" seem to have died a silent death.

"It works just as well with examples of the "small irrelevant things", in fact it feels like a more natural sentence to me. But this is exactly why we don't write code in English..."

No. It doesn't work just as well. If one is listing what counts as irrelevant, the parenthetical goes immediately after the phrase "small irrelevant things". Since it comes immediately after the phrase "major issues" it is clearly a list of major issues. It doesn't matter if it is English or C. If you don't understand what

"" I can't disagree with Linus about this timeframe not being a good time for non-critical updates, but his recurring treatment of security issues as "small irrelevant stuff" makes me somewhat troubled..."

You didn't understand what you read. The parenthetical list was examples of what he does consider to be major issues, not what he will not accept. In fact, unless you know nothing about Linus or Linux, I have to suspect you are merely trolling, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, I supp

Linux is the major kernel written with and for GNU. I'm sure there are non-GNU OSs that use Linux (is Android GNU?), but Linux is all but officially part of GNU.

Linux wasn't written for GNU, with GNU, by GNU, and has even explicitly rejected the latest GNU license. They aren't even close to being "officially" part of GNU. As for the greater Linux operating system, it might as well be called MIT/BSD/GNU/Linux if you want to start assigning credit. Simpler and more accurate to just call the whole OS "Linux", like Linus Torvalds does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy [wikipedia.org]

And because I'm dragging it out for another week, I'm going to be*very* bitter if anybody sends me pull requests this late in the gamethat aren't for major issues. If you send me small irrelevant stuffthat doesn't fix major issues (oopses, security, things like that),I'm going to curse at you

In the spirit of forgiveness and magnanimity, Linus has offered not to call anyone a "fucking moron who should kill himself" this Christmas.

Don't screw up the peace and goodwill, people, or there will be hell to pay!

We've seen a lot of news recently on slashdot about software being released before it is ready. This is just a glimpse into the inner-workings of a very large development team making a tough, but correct, call.